Editing/Refreshing Bibliography

dcollier
Greetings:
I am editing a manuscript and I am occasionally deleting some bibliographic entries. How do I remove these deleted entries accordingly from the bibliography?
In many forms of bibliographic software, the bibliographic citation is in a sense "tagged" *within* the MSWord file. If a citation is deleted in the MSWord document, it disappears from the bibliography that is generated for that particular document.
How do I accomplish this in Zotero?
Many thanks, -- David.
  • adamsmith
    Same idea. If you delete all instances of a citation, it will disappear from the bibliography. Are you saying it doesn't?
    Btw. are you _the_ David Collier of UC Berkeley?
  • dcollier
    I'm afraid the in-text citations are not detected as instances, because I installed Zotero Word processor plug-in after I finished the manuscript. That said, is there a way I could "add" field codes to these citations?

    Yes, I am David Collier of UC Berkeley. Are you _the_ Adam Smith of classical political economy?
  • adamsmith
    I'm afraid the in-text citations are not detected as instances, because I installed Zotero Word processor plug-in after I finished the manuscript. That said, is there a way I could "add" field codes to these citations?
    There are three options here:
    1. You can generate the bibliography from within Zotero, simply selecting all the sources you want to cite --> right click--> Create Bibliography from selected items.

    2. If the bibliography is actually inserted with the Word plugin, you can use the "edit bibliography" function, but it sounds like that's not the case

    3. You can add field codes, so to say, but it's a bit laborious: you'd have to delete the manually inserted references and re-insert them with Zotero.
    Yes, I am David Collier of UC Berkeley. Are you _the_ Adam Smith of classical political economy?
    No, not quite (though I did study Adam Smith with Andrew Janos, which really is the next best thing), but we do know each other:
    https://www.zotero.org/blog/community-spotlight-sebastian-karcher/
    Happy to help in any way I can (I just helped Bear Braumoeller with a Zotero question. Maybe I should offer an IQMR Zotero clinic ;)
    Feel free to e-mail me.
  • DrPas13
    I have deleted an article from my paper, deleted the reference from my Zotero library and the same reference continues to show up in the bibliography, 3 times as "Cama, Camb, Camc. I've tried to fix this at least 20 times. How do I delete the citation from my bibliography. This is the last step before submission. PLEASE HELP ASAP
  • adamsmith
    And you don't want the article at all?

    The easiest I can think of is to change the document to a numeric style like IEEE, see where the references show up in the bibliography, and then check in the corresponding place in the document.

    If you're lucky, you can actually delete the corresponding numbers as they show up, otherwise look for a hidden field code between the surrounding numbers by pressing alt+F9 (assuming you're using Word).
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